Christmas tree stand or holder



Patented Feb. 15, 1949 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE CHRISTMAS TREE STANDR HOLDER William H. Looker, Burlington, Iowa Y Application February 11945, Serial No. 575,695

1 Claim.

The invention relates to improvements in, or a new type of Christmastree stand or holder, of pyramidal shape and having three or more legswhen assembled, which may be (owing to its cheapness) discarded with thetree after its period of use.

This Christmas tree stand or holder is made of one pie-ce of cardboard,pasteboard or light sheet metal, in various sizes and thickness ofmaterial to accommodate the various sizes of Christmas trees and is socreased and cut by machine or otherwise with slots and tabs thatinterlock when folded up on the crease in the center so as to form arigid and strong stand with a square hole in the center (of sizedesired) to receive the butt of the tree and holding same in an uprightposition.

This Christmas tree stand or holder is made entirely in one piece andafter process :of manufacture may be packed for shipment as ilat piecesof cardboard, pasteboard or light sheet metal, Whichever material isused, and may be quickly assembled by'any one without the use of anytool, staples or adhesive of any kind, merely by folding upwards on thesquare crease in the center and interlocking the tabs in theircorresponding slots as per detailed instructions.

This Christmas tree stand or holder can be made with three, `four or velegs to fold eitherv up or down, but the four legged type to foldupwards is the most practical and it is my intention to manufacture thefour legged type to fold upwards, of pasteboard :or cardboard and I havecontemplated putting a small waterproof cup in the bottom of the standto hold a small amount of water for the purpose of keeping the tree fromshedding during the time it is in use.

I Wish my patent to cover the four legged type and made of the materialsmentioned, that is pasteboard, cardboard or light sheet metal, inconnection with my way of forming the stand of one piece of material andthe Way its tabs and slots interlock together firmly without the use ofmy tool, or without theuseof staples, adhesive, ir without the use ofany outside agent Whatioever.

In my drawing, the four legged type to yfold lpwards is the oneillustrated.

Fig. 1 represents the square piece of material :reased and cut, showingthe square crease in he center, dotted lines.

The solid black parts represent the slots I and` he notches 2. The restof the lines, which are cut entirely through the material, arerepresented by 3. The tabs are represented by 4. The square in thecenter is represented by 5.

Fig. 2 is a drawing of my Christmas tree stand or holder, after it isassembled and ready for use.

Referring to Fig. 1. The material is merely folded upwards on the squaredotted lines in the center and any tab 4, ts into the slot l, next to itand locks there.

The rest of the tabs d, are fitted into their corresponding slots l,thus forming a stand of pyramidal shape having four legs and a squarehole in the center to receive the tree. The stand cannot be put togetherwrong.

Referring to Fig. l again, after the material is creased and cut, inprocess of manufacture, anyone can quickly bend it upwards along thesquare crease in the center 5, the tabs 4 go into their respective slotsl and `with a slight push left and out snap into the notches 2 and arelocked there. The tighter the tree fits the square hole, the rmer it isheld.

I do not claim the invention of the Christmas tree stand or holderbroadly speaking.

I claim:

A novelty in a Christmas tree holding stand formed of a single blank,having score lines delining a centrally disposed sq-uare'base section ofvariable size, each of said score lines being continued as a cut fromone end thereof for dividing the blank into four equal sections, eachcut being so made as to provide a tab extending outwardly from the edgeof the section, and each section having a slot parallel to andrearwardly of the tab, the construction being such that when thesections are folded along the score lines with the tab of one sectioninserted in the slot of an adjacent section, a tree support having asquare opening at the top, with support all the way from top to bottomof the stand for the tree and four outwardly extending legs is provided.

WILLIAM H. LOOKER.

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